re: New York Times: Gen Z can't afford the rent

While I agree that your 20's ought to be a time when you should live in a less than glorious starter home or apt, I dont see the housing market coming down nor do I see wages/salaries going up or catching up in the next 10 years. Very pessimistic I know. This country is run by complete morons who don't think about their grandkids' future.

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, I dont see the housing market coming down

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Good, about to put my house on the market.

Perhaps they should move out of the most expensive areas in the country and try living in flyover country. Things are much, much cheaper there.

You want to live in NYC, San Diego or Boston, that's fine, but realize there is a high price to be paid for doing so.

We are staring down some real issues with affordable housing. Simply saying that gen Z needs to suck it up and figure it out belays the reality of the numbers.. real wages regarding basic living have been crushed by inflation and a lack of new affordable urban housing.. Gen Z in general doesn’t help their plight from a narrative standpoint but the issues are real

These people look at me, standing there in shorts, sandals, and a polo watering my azaleas, and think "what a stereotype." And yet they are each a stereotype of a different sort. The only difference is, I'm a stereotype who owns two cars and most of a 4-bedroom detached ranch house.

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25 years old - I wish I had an apartment that looked that f'ing nice in my 20's. This crap story here!

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WTF is she whining about?

My wife and I lived in a studio apartment (and not in NYC) until we had a kid. That got cramped (more cramped than it would've been with 2 hipster lesbians, I promise), so we bought a house before the kid's 1st birthday. I was over 40 years old at the time.

There's no Magic Boomer House-Making Stick, Jess.

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It looks like the career choices those GenZ-ers made has more to do with their inability to pay rent than anything else.

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It truly amazes me that people think they can pursue their "passion" and at the same time ignore it doesn't pay very well. I didn't pursue several things over the years, as a profession, simply because I could not afford to.

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lol what?

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subtle 'I still have standards' brag

Gen Z is the only generation that doesn’t want to work actual jobs. Too many kids thinking they’ll be TikTok and Instagram celebrities, musicians, Hollywood actors, etc. It all goes back to their Gen X parents lying to them and giving them false hope.

This is the dumbest fricking generation I’ve seen in a long time. These kids are so stupid that they don’t even know what fricking gender they are. And top it off, they’re all a bunch of a narcissistic douchebags who think getting more likes on an Instagram/TikTok post is more important than actually building long-lasting relationships that will help them grow and mature. frick them